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ChargeYYC to help Calgarians install EV chargers in multi-residential buildings

October 1, 2024 Energi Staff

The City of Calgary is launching the first phase of ChargeYYC, a new pilot program that provides funding to Calgarians living in condos, apartments, townhouses, rowhouses, and other multi-residential buildings, to install electric vehicle chargers [Read more]

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Gondek named VP of World Energy Cities Partnership

September 12, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by The Energy Mix on Sept. 12, 2024. By Gaye Taylor Calgary Mayor Jyoti Gondek, a strong advocate for her city as a global leader in clean technologies and decarbonization, has [Read more]

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Alberta Ecotrust invests in converting office space into residential units in Calgary

June 27, 2024 Energi Staff

This article was published by Alberta Ecotrust on June 27, 2024. By Andrea Soler CALGARY, June 27, 2024 – Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is proud to announce its investment of $900,000 from its Climate Innovation Fund in [Read more]

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Government of Canada invests in Alberta’s Energy Transition Hub

January 24, 2022 Energi Staff

Last week, the Government of Canada announced it will invest over $3 million in Alberta’s clean technology sector. The Trudeau government says the funds will help fuel the energy transition, strengthen the Canadian economy, create [Read more]

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Global Petroleum Show now the Global Energy Show

February 4, 2020 Energi Staff

On Monday, the Global Petroleum Show announced it will rebrand the event and change its name to the Global Energy Show. The switch reflects the industry’s evolution.  The Global Energy Show will still highlight technological [Read more]

Markham on Energy

‘Energy apologetics,’ not rational discussion about Canadian oil and gas, is what CEOs are really up to

October 3, 2019 Markham Hislop

Energy apologetics: argument for oil and gas development intended to convert audience, not a “rational discussion” about future of  the industry Ed. note: Watch this interview with Dr. Sara Hastings-Simon (Industry caught red-handed with anti-climate [Read more]

Markham on Energy

Why are the oil sands CEOs not at Energy Relaunch? Calgary Bubble needs new blood, new voices

October 24, 2018 Markham Hislop

Headliners at the Energy Relaunch conference Thursday in Calgary at the Metropolitan Conference Centre Energy Relaunch would benefit from more outward looking, forward thinking panelists – like the Alberta oil sands CEOs – instead of [Read more]

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Canada

Husky Energy CEO says company has extra oil pipeline capacity to US

July 10, 2018 Energi Staff

Husky Energy Chief Executive Rob Peabody told the TD investor conference in Calgary that the oil company has enough pipeline capacity locked in to ship its oil until 2021.  Husky photo. On the sidelines of [Read more]

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Global Petroleum Show: Calgary welcomes global energy leaders

June 12, 2018 Energi Staff

Jaden Holle; Leonard Bastien, Elder, Blackfoot confederacy; Minister of Economic Development and Trade Deron Bilous; Jessica Wilson; Lindsay Lockwood welcome participants to the Global Petroleum Show.  Government of Alberta photo. New investment, partnership opportunities as [Read more]

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Opinion

University researchers plot course to dramatically lower Calgary’s GHG emissions by mid-century

April 11, 2018 Markham Hislop

Joule Bergerson and graduate student Matt Tierney completed a Low Carbon Economic Case Study developed in partnership with the City of Calgary By Andrea Kingwell, for the Office of the Vice-President (Research) The debate around [Read more]

CLIMATE change
Alberta

Climate change and construction a recipe for future Calgary floods, study finds

March 16, 2018 Markham Hislop

Research by Babak Farjad’s team shows Elbow River basin will strain under climate change, urban growth Climate change and urban development along Calgary’s Elbow River may be a recipe for frequent flooding disasters in the [Read more]

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Alberta

Calgary, Edmonton economic growth to slow but remain healthy – CBOC

March 13, 2018 Markham Hislop

Calgary unemployment rate down from a 22-year high of 9.4% in 2016 to 8.7% last year Economic growth is set to moderate in Calgary and Edmonton this year, with the cities expanding by 2.5 per [Read more]

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Financial

Low oil prices force sale of Calgary-based citrus bio-solvent oil sands producer

February 27, 2018 Markham Hislop

Production process utilizes citrus based bio-solvent that naturally separates bitumen from oil sands with no tailing ponds US Oil Sands Inc., an innovator of oil extraction technologies using citrus, announced that it has commenced a sale solicitation [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Enmax, renewable energy and electric vehicles – peering into the future with executive John Rilett

August 22, 2017 Markham Hislop

Enmax expects electric vehicle adoption to be slower in Calgary than other Canadian cities Three years ago I interviewed John Rilett, Enmax director of enhanced energy services & renewables, about how the City of Calgary-owned utility [Read more]

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City of Calgary preparing for the (not so far off) autonomous electric vehicle future

August 7, 2017 Markham Hislop

Currently about 3 million light duty vehicles in Alberta, but less than 1,000 EVs Electric vehicles are set to take over the world, folks. Not in the immediate future, but soon enough that city governments [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Ready to ditch your car for ride sharing services Uber or Lyft? Not yet, say readers

June 28, 2017 JZadmin

Flexibility and freedom more highly prized than lower cost of ride sharing, according to readers A Reuters/Ipsos poll showing that 9 per cent of Americans who sold or traded in a car last year have [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Electric vehicles will kill global oil industry by 2030, says Stanford economist Tony Seba

May 5, 2017 JZadmin

If Tony Seba is correct, the Texas and Alberta economies just took a metaphorical bullet to the head Will the emerging electric vehicle “transportation as a service” business model kill the global oil industry in 10 [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Poaching Calgary oil head offices makes Brad Wall look sleazy

April 2, 2017 JZadmin

Donald Trump’s shenanigans in the White House have made voters sensitive about politicians using their office to enrich themselves Brad Wall has been around politics long enough to know that perception is just as important [Read more]

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Markham on Energy

Renewable energy part of earning social licence for Alberta oil sands?

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Renewable energy – primarily wind – already cost-competitive without subsidies in Alberta, says BluEarth CEO Calgary entrepreneur Kent Brown has been named Clean Energy Canada’s “Innovator of the Year” for 2015. Not bad for a [Read more]

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Enmax preparing for future of Alberta renewable energy

March 25, 2017 JZadmin

Cost of renewables will drop, fossil fuel costs likely to rise, power grid becomes smarter – Enmax I still refer to this column three years later. Long before Rachel Notley and the NDP assumed power in Alberta [Read more]

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Alberta needs a Plan B

by Markham Hislop in Markham on Energy

Oil finally has a competitor (electricity) Alberta already has a Plan A. It’s called the Emissions Reduction and Energy Development Plan. To understand how risky it is, you need to understand OPEC’s “Oil and Gas [Read more]

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